Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:24:42 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 07/15] block: Limit atomic write IO size according to atomic_write_max_sectors | From | John Garry <> |
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On 14/02/2024 07:26, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 08:15:08AM +0000, John Garry wrote: >> I'm note sure if that would be better in the fops.c patch (or not added) > > We'll need the partition check. If you want to get fancy you could > also add the atomic boundary offset thing there as a partitions would > make devices with that "feature" useful again, although I'd prefer to > only deal with that if the need actually arises.
Yeah, that is my general philosophy about possible weird HW.
> > The right place is in the core infrastructure, the bdev patch is just > a user of the block infrastructure. bdev really are just another > file system and a consumer of the block layer APIs.
ok, I'll try to find a good place for it.
Thanks, John
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